Juana of Castile’s Book of Hours: An Archduchess at Prayer
This article examines one of Juana of Castile’s books of hours (London, BL Add. MS 18852) comparing it with those written for members of Juana’s family and seeking to discern how it was used, in order to reassess her peers’ evaluation of her spiritual ...
Lesley K. Twomey
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The Illuminated Garden—The Visitation in the Book of Hours of Juana Enriquez (BPR, II/2104)
This article examines the unique depiction of the Visitation in the Book of Hours of Juana Enriquez, housed in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid and also known as the Book of Hours of Isabella the Catholic.
Aida Ferri, Rubén Gregori
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New Additions to the Collection of Old Printed Books of the Library of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary: Books of the 17th–18th Centuries (Part 2) [PDF]
The article presents materials on the book archeography of the Cyril tradition. The work introduces to readers old printed books from the collection of Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary.
Andrey V. Poletaev
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The Usage of Scriptural Nativity Motifs in Early Greek and Slavonic Hymnography
In this article I will make a survey of the usage of the main nativity motifs that can be found in early Greek and Slavonic hymnography, such as the kata stichon hymns.
Enrique Santos Marinas
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New Additions to the Collection of Old Printed Books of the Library of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary: Books of the 17th — Early 19th Centuries (Part 3) [PDF]
The author provides materials on the book archeography of the Cyrillic tradition and presents old printed books from the collection of the library of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary.
Andrey V. Poletaev
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Scriptural content of the English medieval Book of Hours: Tracing textual traditions of nine lessons from the Book of Job [PDF]
This contribution examines nine lessons from the Office of the Dead, found in a group of English translations of the Book of Hours. The text of the lessons comes from six chapters of the Book of Job and therefore constitutes scriptural content of this ...
Maja Hordyjewicz
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This paper presents an annotated English translation of the rite of Vespers contained in the Melkite Alexandrian Arabic Book of Hours (Horologion) found in the 13th century Christian Arabic manuscript Sinai Arabic 232.
Andrew Wade
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Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts were collected in North America from about 1820. Four key sources of them can be identified: 1. Ancestral ownership of books brought by early settlers; 2. Acquisitions by missionaries and scholars; 3.
Scott Gwara
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On the Hierarchical Use of Colourants in a 15th Century Book of Hours
An illuminated Book of Hours (in use in Chalon-sur-Saône) currently owned by the Museo Civico di Arte Antica and displayed in the prestigious Palazzo Madama in Torino (Italy) was investigated by means of optical microscopy, fibre optic reflectance ...
Angelo Agostino +5 more
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